eBay Pays $56M to Couple Targeted in Cockroach Harassment Campaign

Ken Lucas, Visuals Unlimited, Inc. / Getty Images eBay will pay nearly $56 million to a Massachusetts couple who said the company tried to terrorize them into stopping their reporting with a campaign of threats, stalking, live cockroaches, and a bloody pig Halloween mask. The settlement, announced Tuesday, ends more than six years of criminal and civil litigation brought by David and Ina Steiner, founders of the e-commerce newsletter EcommerceBytes. The deal provides $48.7 million in…